Speak Your Mind: May 16

Wednesday

May 16, 2018 at 8:44 AM

Reach The Independent's comment line at 330-775-1108.

I hear that under the new tax plan, a certain billionaire might be getting tax reductions worth hundreds of millions of dollars. I think if you added up all the taxpayers in the 7th and 16th congressional districts combined, the tax breaks they all get would probably be less than what one particular billionaire gets in tax reductions. Maybe somebody could check on that.

I see this article "Trump, Dems share blame for confirmation chaos." ... This article ... says that some of Trump's nominees just don't deserve to be confirmed and yet Democrats are somehow to be blamed for opposing them. Why are Democrats to be blamed for opposing nominees who don't deserve to be confirmed in the first place? I don't know. It says nothing about Republicans opposing Barack Obama's nominees as if there's no history behind this. Suddenly Democrats are opposing Republicans for no reason. It talks about CIA torture without actually using the word torture, much less getting into criticizing why torture is bad and criticizing the people who support torture and saying why they're wrong. It doesn't go into any of that. Basically, it gives a tremendously biased view in favor of Donald Trump and Republicans.

On Monday, May 14, there's an article on the front page it says, "Trump, Dems share blame for confirmation chaos." This is not a news story. There's no news here. It's purely an opinion piece. I want to know why it's on the front page instead of on an opinion page. If it's put on the opinion page, clearly labeled as opinion, at least it's honestly labeled. This is not news. It should not be in the format of a news story. It's an opinion piece and not a very good one.